Herculean

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Santosh Janardhan, Meta’s head of infrastructure, said his company’s goal is “to deliver personal superintelligence to billions of people,” a herculean task that requires immense amounts of power, land and hardware.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

This tie is far from over, even if it is going to take a herculean effort from Newcastle at the Nou Camp next week.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

On Friday, SpaceX asked U.S. regulators for approval to launch up to 1 million satellites as orbital data centers, which would be a herculean effort.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 2, 2026

But somehow, thanks to a herculean effort led by executive producer Erik Rydholm, coordinating producer Aaron Solomon, producer Josh Bard and host Tony Reali, we survived.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

If anything, the NACA’s response to Sputnik would only intensify the process of change, as the herculean task of safely navigating the heavens was divided into myriad smaller tasks, tests, parts, and people.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly